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  • 10 - The Establishment of ‘New Commons’ by Government Decree

  • from Part 5 - Dynamics of Social-Ecological Relations between the 1990s and the Present
  • Michael Bollig
  • Book:
    Shaping the African Savannah
    Published online:
    22 June 2020
    Print publication:
    02 July 2020, pp 279-316

  • Summary

    Since the 1990s conservation is of major importance in the region. Communal conservancies now cover most of north-western Namibia. Conservancies self-organise conservationist measures and relegate land to exclusive wildlife use. Such conservancies are territorial units with clearly defined boundaries. They are governmentally acknowledged and are run by elected committees. They hope to reap income from tourism and all figures document that conservancies gain first of all profound monetary support from international donors but also gain from tourism (at least some of them do). The chapter discusses the economic, social, and cultural repercussions of the reorganisation of communal natural resource management. It problematises the difficult translation of global blueprints of sustainable environmental management into local settings.